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In Memoriam: Professor Thomas James Stephenson Cole

Thomas James Stephenson Cole 1920-2025
Department of Physics, Carleton College/Carleton University
1947-1985

James was born in 1920 in England. His family moved to the United…

Carleton's Mark Boulay Awarded Medal for Contributions to Subatomic Physics

Carleton University physics researcher Mark Boulay has been awarded the prestigious 2025 CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal for Contributions to Subatomic Physics. An international leader in particle physics, Boulay is being recognized for…

Carleton Physicists Awarded Prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

A team of Carleton University researchers from the Department of Physics have been honoured with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to the international ATLAS Collaboration for its significant…

Provost Scholar Award Recipients Announced

Congratulations to Aya Tessier!

4th-year physics student wins the Provost Scholar Award and the Peter J. Ricketts Outstanding Provost Scholar Award! She is the first physics student to win the Provost Scholar…

World Autism Awareness Day: Support your collegues and students

Prof. Heather Logan has developed a guide to supporting autistic colleagues and students, freely available here:
https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2410.17929&data=05%…

Improving Radiation Therapy

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Congratulations to Eva Anderson for the successful defense of her MSc thesis!

Eva successfully defended her thesis, "Separating the vascular and nonvascular sources of magnetic susceptibility in physiological MRI techniques based on the reversible transverse relaxation rate, R2’“, before the winter…

NSERC USRA Summer 2025

For those of you who are intending to apply for an NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA), you should bear in mind the impending deadlines for these applications.

For further information on applying for an…

Carleton Medical Physics program accreditation successfully renewed

Carleton's PhD program in Medical Physics has successfully renewed its CAMPEP accreditation effective through to 2029. Medical Physics involves the application of physics to medicine in one of four sub-specialties: diagnostic…

Science Café - Our Dark (Matter) Universe

Join us for an exciting Science Café event, "Our Dark (Matter) Universe," where Seyda Ipek,…

In Memoriam: Professor Bruce Campbell

When first meeting Bruce Campbell, he would often say “Hi, I’m Bruce Campbell”, then pause for a few seconds, smile, and add “not THAT Bruce Campbell”.  If you have seen the films, you know what he meant.           
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Carleton Physics students win top prizes at the 2024 Canadian Undergraduate Medical Physics Conference

Carleton undergraduate Physics students Zoë Boukouris and Haydn Flemming won 1st place in their respective categories of the oral presentation sessions at the 2024 Canadian Undergraduate Medical Physics Conference (CUMPC) on…